APAC TOOLKITS 04/2020

Contents curated and revised by APAC’s

social networks team

Learning Never Stops

April 2020

Kindle their love of reading (and rekindle yours!)

Many writers are sharing their works online, so sit back and enjoy a session of reading by a range of authors
(and discover some unexpected accents!):

Oliver Jeffers reads one of his beautifully illustrated stories every

day, Monday to Friday, and talks about the origins and references
in each.

RJ Palacio live streams: Weekdays (from March 25) at 12pm EST,

Wonder fans will be thrilled to hear that author RJ Palacio will be
reading the book every weekday (until she finishes it!) on Twitter
live! Be careful with the timezone, though!

David Walliams’s elevenses: Walliams reads a story every day at

eleven (that’s noon for you). Enjoy Walliams’ fun stories and
mischievous characters.

Cressida Cowell is also sharing with you a chapter a day of her

world-famous How to Train your Dragon.
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Oxford Owl offer many of their books online in a tablet-friendly

format, featuring great series to get early readers giggling and
feeling proud of their abilities.

APAC’s very own Edward Lockhart is reading out stories and

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sharing them with the community. Check out his Twitter
account, sit back and enjoy!

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World Book Online have opened up their collection of
thousands of ebooks and audiobooks so that children can read

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Neil Gaiman reads from The Graveyard Book, Coraline and

more in his official website for young readers, with great
illustrations by Dave McKean.

Mac Barnett will also be reading one of his books on Instagram

every day, and talking about how he wrote them.

Many children authors have chipped in to make confinement a

bit more magical. You can find videos by many more
storytelling videos in this webpage.
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Bring out the inner artist
Work on your creative skills and engage your budding artists through music, drawing and crafting
activities:

Stef Murphy shares her supercool and easy-to-follow drawing

tutorials to get everybody doodling away.

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Ed Vere draws: Get your pencils ready! Every Wednesday and
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Scouts UK are rising to the challenge of keeping little hands

entertained, and have posted a lot of tutorials for activities to do
at home and master the great indoors.

Nifty share tutorials on all things crafty and DIY via instagram and
youtube.

For more experienced crafters, Creative Bug offer a range of

online lessons, including drawing, origami and knitting.

Award-winning book illustrator Rob Biddulph is sharing

draw-along videos daily on his Twitter feed
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Shake it! Keeping fit in English
Can you keep up with a primary PE class? Shake it until you break it with these great resources that will
help your students burn out some of the extra energy:

Fun songs with cool dance

moves and mindfulness
activities free for families
and teachers -
Let’s go noodle!
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Meet the internet’s favourite PE
teacher, Joe Wicks, and join him for his

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live morning HIIT workout on Youtube.
Enjoy the DOMS after a session of
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The British NHS has a great programme to

help kids stay fit that includes games you
can play at home, recipes to help kids be
food smart, and many ideas for 10-minute
shake ups with Disney characters:
Change4life

Cosmic Kids has plenty of videos,

games and resources to get kids
(and their adults) into yoga and
mindfulness from an early age.
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Give your students’ brains a good workout

Check out the activities designed by these fab teachers from the world wide classroom. Make sure you
follow them and take the opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and try out new things. So, what
is the teacher community up to during the lockdown? Here are some Instagram accounts to follow for
fun ideas and activities!

@classclassyesyes
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Iris is a primary English teacher in Tarragona and absolutely loves
picture books. Don’t miss her live storytelling sessions! Also, go to

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her YouTube channel to watch her collection of videos on a wide
variety of topics relating to teaching English in primary.
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Angelica is an English teacher currently working as a Spanish
teacher in Illinois. On her Instagram, she shares many ideas of
activities to do in the primary classroom, from games to stories to
read.

@missmorality_
Sandra is a secondary English teacher currently teaching in Texas.
On her account, she shares a variety of activities to do with TV
shows and films that you can use with your teens!

@nodnol_english
In-between rocking it out helping APAC, Raquel shares in her
instagram and youtube accounts plenty of pronunciation tips for
you to improve your speaking, as well as posts to test your
vocabulary.
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@2profesenapuros
Carlota, Anna and Ana are extremely active on social media. Check
out their account for loads of fun DYI ideas, games and activities
for primary and pre-primary students! They’re also the organisers
of the Festival #ClaustroDeIGSeQuedaEnCasa, now in its fourth
edition. Starting Saturday 4th April at 10am, tune in for hourly live
sessions on a variety of topics.

@tarrodeidiomas
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Laura is a Spanish teacher in the UK on her account she shares
cool materials and activities to work on vocabulary. Apart from that,
she’s the co-founder of @kumubox together with Christian. Check
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out their site to access the webinars they’re organising on a wide
variety of topics!

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Alba is a secondary English teacher in Alicante and she is always
designing very creative materials and tasks for her teenage
students. Check out her account for loads activities to work on the
four skills in a very original way.

@teacher.mister.alonso
Mister Alonso shares links to online activities, games and workouts to
practice English and PE.

@amotivatedteacher
Elisenda shares great ideas for activities and methodologies with an
emphasis on wholesome contents and current issues for teens and
teachers.